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Honestly it wouldnt matter unless the panels are at least twice the distance up the tower due to 3db=twice the ERP, eventhough distance is key in RF. The further the coax the higher the loss plus connector loss.

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Has anybody else been roaming alot lately? I don't know if it is just the new phone (Note II) over the previous (EVOLTE) but Seems I am going into roaming alot lately. The other day the phone even alerted me that I was internationally roaming (Wow Cuba or Mexico must have put up some extremely powerful antennae :o )

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Has anybody else been roaming alot lately? I don't know if it is just the new phone (Note II) over the previous (EVOLTE) but Seems I am going into roaming alot lately. The other day the phone even alerted me that I was internationally roaming (Wow Cuba or Mexico must have put up some extremely powerful antennae :o )

 

Where do you live because I'm seeing the same thing.. It's sporadic but it's strange

 

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Has anybody else been roaming alot lately? I don't know if it is just the new phone (Note II) over the previous (EVOLTE) but Seems I am going into roaming alot lately. The other day the phone even alerted me that I was internationally roaming (Wow Cuba or Mexico must have put up some extremely powerful antennae :o )

Castro has nv lol

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Where do you live because I'm seeing the same thing.. It's sporadic but it's strange

 

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I live in NPR, but work near fairgrounds in off MLK in Eastern Tampa. I was at Shoot straight on 301 when I got the international roaming alert.

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Will suggest getting your phone replaced of it is still in the buyers remorse period just to be sure it's not a hardware issue with your particular phone.

 

 

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Wtf are you sure ur iPhone works

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Honestly it wouldnt matter unless the panels are at least twice the distance up the tower due to 3db=twice the ERP, eventhough distance is key in RF. The further the coax the higher the loss plus connector loss.

 

Only a few feet of coax on the new equipment no matter what height it is at. The beauty of the RRU.

 

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So does anyone have a good guess on when we might start to see LTE in Tampa/Brandon?

Well you guys are reporting not seeing anything going on over there but I have to believe there is at least a few sites that have panels up..
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I hope so. I am thinking of Going to T-Mobile I really don't want to though if it is going to be like 3 more months than I can wait but till the end of next year no way

Dude in 3 months we will be laughing about how stupid we were with all of this bitching we're doing trust me.. By March this will be a distant memory

 

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Dude in 3 months we will be laughing about how stupid we were with all of this bitching we're doing trust me.. By March this will be a distant memory

 

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i sure hope so..

So the panels are up at the one Tux has been talking about. Tower was still rigged but it looks like the lines have been run..

 

yes sir they are! i can confirm and me ehrdp is back thats the van i was talkng about like 5 posts ago

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Wow the crickets are starting to get loud in Tampa, from the non-LTE activity :D

You're right. I'm bored chasing sites, I'm kinda disappointed too that it appears they will be behind schedule here. I still believe when we get the first site in this area it will be something like 10-12 at a time but I'm just tired of waiting every week for a update that doesn't come. I see the clusterr they are building in at least two areas where multiple sites will likely come on line at the same time but still I'm just disappointed to see they wasted Aug-Oct doing what appears to be nothing at sites I have been too. No slab, no evidence of backhaul, no cabinets set. All things that could have been completed beforehand to speed up the process. Maybe it wasn't able to be done for one reason or another but still the basics of site prep could have been completed and I'm seeing it wasnt. Maybe this is where the other vendors are beating Ericsson. Preparation.
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My pings are you real low everywhere I go and I am on eHRPD everywhere too. I am going to stay it will be worth the wait I hope. My 3g use to be blazing fast now it barley gets 200+ kbps :( I hope its a sing of LTE being right around the corner. They are building up real fast from what sensorly says

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Tux you live in Largo?

 

yessir off 137 right down the road drive by that railroad tower every day for school at spc and work. the thing i did notice is ehrdp has gone away a couple of times. and its not just my rom which had a problem with that.

and i get no service in my school home or work miss calls all the time

Really sad that the Rural town I used to live in in VA, now has a heavy buildout of LTE already because Shentel has been going like gangbusters.

 

ericsson has always sucked in rollouts and they do a majority of the sprint roll outs if im right and some att.

i really dont think ill even see lte in side my house when it comes to the rail road tower. I know wimax didnt even make it to my street i have no reason to belive otherwise but well see ill jsut be happy with the nv roll out so i get better 3g and more importantly less droped calls and the 800mhz iden roll out will be when i actually stick with sprint. I have a year left on my employee account i hope they pull it together honestly the 30 bucks a month i pay for service isent even worth it when i can pay 45 unlimited EVERYTHING on tmobile or att which are double the speed if not more. lte is pretty much the deal breaker cuz they are both hdspa+ but their hdspa is just as fast as sprints lte is going to be espacially when the network gets loaded and it uses less battery than lte.

 

 

oh yeah and feech i saw that some of the towers on the gulf blvd beach have nv panels. But they have fast enough 3g as is i wish were markets were allready satifyed they wouldnt waste their time cuz thats bull shit i never get below a meg a second there which is useable.

 

and feech id say mid december well see lights up just from the amount of progress in my local area. its just sad some places dont have slab and cabinets yet ericsson is a bunch of SLACKERS

 

 

 

http://www.androidpo...-drop-your-jaw/

 

^ that is all i am waiting for but i fear it will be another 2 years before tampa market sees it

 

 

also does anyone know what they plan to do in 2013 when wimax shuts down in terms or repourpousing hol shit phone keyboard

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